From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78086 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:04:03 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87zkokei6u.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <3waagj1nen.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87lj03v23l.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301065543 24530 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 15:05:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:05:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26397@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 25 16:05:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q38a3-0007kS-69 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:05:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q38Y8-0002wL-RA; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:03:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q38Y5-0002w7-Vg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:03:37 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q38Y4-00082F-BK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:03:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com ([209.85.161.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q38Y3-0004qa-F7 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:03:35 +0100 Original-Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so1706041fxm.17 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:03:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization :message-id:references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=l7ms0+/sJNPscinbuyA088IJlNd2HuP8lSmcTjDmf94=; b=WbmPaDnKq5vbqsJVQuRkSwEWTK//dXkpziOWBJIrqqWGseiIK4PAyx0zlKhIda4gz8 MYMUqPVlUv/MS+MYM6/HQr4CGoQfHAfnSHGsRN2RbT4te/YMXt/fdoOe0il474/nSto6 T8pPVKkcVgZ7t9pnzQv/BTLS4QgDk7a5Gi7fU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization:message-id:references :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=b9uP3wsHP8hXgnLsZfBrXe5rQ50rjltk9ThNxOm8h+xyn5X0wb7prjfNs0w3Vb0uu4 jtd3XB8fRXU3wJCAhql3q91/dNPV7LBawKQX/YUoEdsn1DDwjAlrCOO4RAnf4GG/kCsm LoXHuRm1RxUkONK3z/qIS0CY+VSh9CG9YLAqI= Original-Received: by 10.223.27.129 with SMTP id i1mr983446fac.24.1301065409185; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:03:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from asus1015pem (109.Red-83-40-108.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [83.40.108.109]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p16sm456253fax.45.2011.03.25.08.03.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from shamrock by asus1015pem with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q38Yl-0003pg-2D for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:04:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87lj03v23l.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:03:42 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110015 (No Gnus v0.15) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78086 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> Eric S Fraga writes: >> >>> Richard Riley writes: >>> >>>> Is there a way to make the default key binding for >>>> gnus-group-get-new-news only fetch from a certain configured level and >>>> below? I dont see it from the docstring. I do see I can prefix each time >>>> but using agent and data roaming , the common use case would be for >>>> "rescan" to only rescan high priority (or low level..) groups where the >>>> boundary is a configured level (if set to nil it rescans all). >>>> >>> >>> I have gnus-activate-level set to 2 for this reason with most groups' >>> levels set at 3 except for the high priority ones. 'g' is the command >>> for rescanning (getting email into/from) groups. >>> >>> Assuming I understood your question correctly, of course ;-) >> >> Yes thats kind of it. Now let me explain (my!) confusion. >> >> The behaviour *unplugged* is where I'm at. Since unplugged you are using >> the agent then it makes little sense to me not to activate subscribed >> groups. I have already done a C-u 5 g in plugged mode to scan all level >> 5 and below followed by a Js to download. If I then quit gnus and >> restart later (gnus-unplugged is my new "on holiday" default start) then >> since I can *see* the subscribed groups (the level of subscridness means >> they are subscribed and visible) then there is no immediately obvious >> reason not to activate them in unplugged too since its just a case of >> displaying the group line activated with the already stored unread >> count. As it is I need to C-u 5 g again (unplugged). Does this make some >> kind of sense? >> > > I think I do understand. You may wish to set not only > gnus-activate-level but also gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups to 5? It > defaults to 4, I believe. That works yes! Wow. Thanks! But "foreign group"? Why are they foreign groups? They are groups attached to nntp servers defined in select methods. Ye gods its complicated ;) ...